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Must Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
- We must use time creatively.
- We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
- It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
- Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of…
- We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.…
- Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for…
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
- We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
- Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
- Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that…
- We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
- Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
- If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then…
- The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because…
- If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred,…
More Must Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on… — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle